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(@jimmy-cleveland)
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I have been getting crazy, foreign text in some of my emails that I send from my laptop.

???????????????????????????• ????•?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????†??????????

This is in addition to the text that is supposed to be there.

Any ideas what is causing this?

Thanks in advance,
Jimmy

 
Posted : March 4, 2013 6:16 am
(@peter-ehlert)
Posts: 2951
 

> Any ideas what is causing this?
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it is a known bug called "Microsoft"

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Posted : March 4, 2013 7:01 am
(@jimcox)
Posts: 1951
 

One idea I had was maybe your mailer is set to automatically add a signature - perhaps from a file - said sig is set as chinese or korean language, or uses a foreign font.

But I think Peter is probably right 🙂

 
Posted : March 4, 2013 9:57 am
(@mkennedy)
Posts: 683
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A Google search netted me two hits that Windows Mail has a "My Stationary" setting. The file that setting points to may have gotten corrupted or virus-hit. Instructions on one site say:

Doc Ray at http://ask-leo.com/comments_002669.php says:

Here some info that I found with this problem: after much troubleshooting, I found in Windows mail my stationary was set to "My Stationary" which apparently had some bad code in it which produced the Chinese characters. In Windows Mail, go to TOOLS-OPTIONS tab, select COMPOSE tab, then try changing, or unchecking the "Mail" "Stationary" tab, click APPLY, and try it. This solved my problem, after which I deleted the My Stationary file by right clicking on it, and choosing delete. Hope this problem is gone for good!

Melita

 
Posted : March 4, 2013 10:16 am
(@a-harris)
Posts: 8761
 

I get some similar stuff at times.

I only have a few language files downloaded from the options available. Not going to download the whole world library.

0.02

 
Posted : March 4, 2013 10:40 am